The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 13, sentence 106

Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush there came a low hiss--a horrid cold sound that made Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.

Who acts: Darzee, horrid cold sound, Rikki tikki · What happens: cower down, answer, come, make, jump back · To what, where: nest, low hiss, two clear feet

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Darzee, horrid cold sound, Rikki tikki), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Darzee	Darzee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cowered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cowered	cc
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cowered	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 cowered	advmod
6	cowered	cower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 came	parataxis
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 cowered	compound:prt
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cowered	obl
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 answering	mark
12	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 came	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grass	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 grass	case
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grass	det
17	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grass	amod
18	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answering	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 foot	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 foot	det
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grass	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 bush	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bush	det
24	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 foot	nmod
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 bush	advmod
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hiss	det
28	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hiss	amod
29	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 sound	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sound	det
32	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sound	amod
33	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sound	amod
34	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hiss	appos
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 made	nsubj
36	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sound	acl:relcl
37	Rikki	Rikki	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 tikki	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 Rikki	punct
39	tikki	tikki	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 jump	nsubj
40	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 made	ccomp
41	back	back	ADV	_	40 jump	advmod
42	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 feet	nummod
43	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 feet	amod
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 jump	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cower down	participle	Darzee		the nest		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	gerund				for the thick grass at the foot of the bush	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past		a low hiss			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hiss=Theme
4	make	past	a horrid cold sound				tree rules
5	jump back	infinitive	Rikki tikki	two clear feet			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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